Germany is putting pressure upon the United States in order to force the Government to prevent Great Britain from making foodstuffs contraband, and has even gone so far as to declare that "strained relations" exist between the two nations. President Wilson is reported to be determined to avoid war. He probably knows that in a war with Germany, Washington would be in greater danger of capture than either London or Paris. There are ...
Article : 464 wordsA Zeppelin airship was destroyed yesterday at Fano Island, on the West Coast of Denmark, and the crew of 16 were interned. ...
Article : 151 wordsIt is also stated that the Kaiser was in the fighting line in this battle. ...
Article : 20 wordsThe accounts of what picceded the Russian retirement from East Prussia are conflicting. The Russians state that when their troops found they were ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 687 wordsLast night's London Gazette" includes 27 pages of the names of men recommended by Field-Marshal Sir John French for gallant or ...
Article : 46 wordsMr. Martin Donohoe, the special correspondent of the [?]Daily Chronicle," states that on Monday and Tuesday he witnessed the Austro-German forces ...
Article : 267 wordsThe British steamer Dulwich, 3,283 tons, belonging to Messrs. Watts, Watts and Co., Limited which was being used as a collier was blown up yesterday off ...
Article : 91 wordsWhen the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. Hughes) a few days ago announced his decision with regard to certain applications to avoid or suspend enemy trade ...
Article : 78 wordsThere is much activity by Zeppelins about Jutland, the mainland of Denmark, and in the Baltic. Yesterday two of the airships were observed from ...
Article : 68 wordsA proclamation was issued to-day by the Governor-General prohibiting the export of leather from Australia, except by permission of the Minister of ...
Article : 33 wordsOn Tuesday afternoon the German submarine U16, a sister ship of the U12, which sunk the Dulwich, blew up and sank the French steamer Ville do ...
Article : 87 wordsThe case in which the Commonwealth Crown Solicitor is making an application for the confirmation of the appointment of Mr. H. B. Allard as ...
Article : 201 wordsThe forty British aeroplanes which on Tuesday raided the coastal districts of Belgium, occupied by the Germans, and bombed the enemy's heavy gun butteries ...
Article : 47 wordsThe Allies' artillery has been doing a good deal of damage to the German right wing, between the North Sea and the River Oise, while the infantry has ...
Article : 275 wordsThe 110 permanently-incapacitated British soldiers who arrived yesterday at Oldenzal in Holland, on their way to England and most of whom are ...
Article : 194 wordsA wireless message received in New York from Berlin states that Admiral Beh[?]cke, of the German Admiralty, has informed the American naval attache ...
Article : 93 wordsGermany has notified the United States that a condition of strained relations exists between Germany and America. ...
Article : 106 wordsAlthough they did not see any actual fighting, passengers by the R.M.S..Orsova, which arrived this morning, experienced a very anxious time during ...
Article : 174 wordsWhile the steamer Kirkham Abbey, 1.162 tons, belonging, to the Hull and Netherlands Steamship Co.. was on a voyage from Rotterdam to Hull ...
Article : 66 wordsThe British Board of Trade announces that compensation will be paid to all persons on British merchant ships injured in attacks by submarines. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe text of the German reply to the United States Note, protesting against Germany's announced intention of sinking nautral ships, has been made ...
Article : 967 wordsCaptain Erdmand, the commander of the German armoured cruiser Blucher, which was sunk by the British in the North Sea battle, and who was among ...
Article : 61 wordsThe steamer Navua, which brought back the remainder of the First Australian, Expeditionary Force from the Pacific, reached Sydney to-day. A close ...
Article : 108 wordsA lifeb[?]oy, apparently belonging to the German submarine U12. 800 tons and a speed on the surface of l8 knots, has been found at Zuydcoote. ...
Article : 35 wordsThere are now eight or ten German Army Corps (somewhere about 400,000 men) in East Prussia. The Russian forces engaged against them were ...
Article : 100 wordsThe State Governor (Sir Gerald Strickland) to-day signed his assent to the Meat Supply for Imperial Uses Act. This new Act will remain dormant for the present, ...
Article : 97 wordsThe eleventh report of the Belgian Commission on German atrocities has been issued. It gives the details of German outrages in the province of ...
Article : 83 wordsSir Edward Grey, in a White Paper o[?] about 7,000 words addressed to Dr. Page, the American Ambassador again insists that the trade of the United ...
Article : 747 wordsThe Press Bureau states that the reply of Sir Edward Grey, the Secretary o[?] State for Foreign Affairs, to the American Note on the question of ...
Article : 300 wordsIn the course of a debate in the House of Commons this afternoon on the food supplies, Mr. Walter Runciman, the President of the Board of Agriculture, ...
Article : 104 wordsThe further representations with regard to the early closing of hotels and the restriction of the sale of liquor to soldiers were made to the Premier (Sir ...
Article : 155 wordsIt is officially stated in Berlin that the Germans claim that after a nine days' battle in the Masurian Lakes district of East Prussia the Russian ...
Article : 120 wordsAt to-day's proceedings at the trial of General Christian De Wet, the Orange Free State rebel leader, a witness stated that General Botha the Prime Minister, ...
Article : 139 wordsIn the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, Mr. H. J. Tennant, the Under-Secretary of State for W[?]r said that up till January 24 there had been ...
Article : 63 wordsThe death is announced of Monsignor Walravena the Bishop of Tournay, in Belgium. The Roman Catholic, clergy in Berlin assert that the prelate's death ...
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Fri 19 Feb 1915, Page 5
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